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This article explains the ACTFL/NCATE standards most relevant to the field and offers practical guidance for programs compiling ACTFL/NCATE reports to seek national recognition. 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Shrum  \nVirginia Tech  \nRebecca Fox  \nGeorge Mason University  \nAbstract  \nAccreditation and accountability recently have been prominent in national conversations about the preparation of teachers. Members of our profession have developed standards to which we will hold ourselves as we prepare foreign language and world language (F/WL) teachers for the 21st century. As aparticipating Specialized Professional Association (SPA), ACTFL has joined the conversation with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). In this article, we describe the standards that are most applicable to our field and provide suggestions for those who are compiling their ACTFL/ NCATE reports seeking national program recognition. We offer comments and suggestions based upon our work presenting ACTFL/NCATE workshops on this topic for the past three years.  \nIntroduction  \nWhether you read this article as a beginning or veteran teacher, a supervisor or school principal, a teacher educator or a language student, you have heard about assessment, accreditation, standards, and learning outcomes. As educators, we often feel that assessment, standards, and accreditation are imposed upon us from some outside source, leaving us to wonder if these standards have anything to do with what we as professional educators value and teach our students. At the same time, we want to know whether our students are really learning and whether they can do what we think they can do. Standards can help us identify and agree upon desired outcomes, especially if they are shaped in the context of a national assessment that has been developed and valued by members of our own profession.  \n2 Dimension 2010: Communication Beyond the Classroom  \nThe best assessment practices emerge from within the profession. They are an honest response to our desire to understand what and how our students and teachers are learning and teaching. As Graff (2008) points out, the recent emphasis on outcomes assessment within the educational community denies the complacent belief that nothing in our house needs to change. Our standards have been developed over a period of three decades by those who teach and learn languages, with periodic revision and verification by those who are working actively in classrooms. The standards are high but attainable. They simultaneously respond to needs in the field and provide leadership for the profession. Through the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the profession has developed standards for students and teachers and has affiliated with a national accreditation organization that recognizes high quality teacher education programs, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) . In order to seek national recognition, programs that prepare teachers submit reports of what their graduates know and are able to do. In this way, programs measure themselves against a nationally agreed-upon set of standards. As a result, language education programs have goals to work toward within a clearly articulated professional context. In this article, we will describe the sets of standards in foreign and world language (F/WL) teacher education, with particularly detailed attention to the writing of the report submitted to ACTFL/NCATE by teacher education programs.  \nAn Overview of the Relevant Standards  \nOur profession has developed several documents that guide us in assessing the performance of our students, teachers, and academic programs. As a backdrop for standards of what students and teachers should know and be able todo, our profession laid the groundwork for what performance looks like at various levels of accomplishment and study. More than 25 years ago, ACTFL developed the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines for Speaking, Writing, Reading, and Listening (1982, 1999, 2001) . 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